Reminders for the Week
-Early Release Day, Monday December 4th.
-Please note that Tuesday, Dec. 19, will be a Thursday schedule.
As we are planning for the last day of school which includes a house event, winter parties and culminating in a winter assembly at the end of the day, we hope you will all be here to join in the fun! If you can’t, we would appreciate knowing if you are planning to take your child/ren away at an earlier date. Please inform your classroom teacher.
READING
This week, as they continue exploring different biographies, third grade readers will note that often a subject’s life and time are quite different from our own today. They will analyze and judge the subject’s decisions against the specific circumstances in which he/she lives rather than in our own context. They will also build theories and reflect on what life lessons can be learned.
WRITING
This week in writing we continue to work on our Persuasive writing piece. In particular, we will look at how authors plan their writing, by keeping a timeline. We will also look at various sources of evidence to support our thesis statement, including interviews and surveys. Later in the week we will look at raising our introductions and conclusions to help make our audience care.
MATH
SCIENCE
-Early Release Day, Monday December 4th.
-Please note that Tuesday, Dec. 19, will be a Thursday schedule.
As we are planning for the last day of school which includes a house event, winter parties and culminating in a winter assembly at the end of the day, we hope you will all be here to join in the fun! If you can’t, we would appreciate knowing if you are planning to take your child/ren away at an earlier date. Please inform your classroom teacher.
As a part of the Service Learning Office activities for the Elementary school and with the cooperation of the Students Council team, we will start a Warm Clothing Drive and Toy Drive to be donated to Stabl Antar Dreams School. The collection of the donations will begin on Wednesday, December 6th, 2017. Elementary school students will have boxes for donations in their classrooms. Middle and High school students will be able to donate in the boxes at Eagle Plaza (The front gate).
On the day of the Winter Celebration (December 21, 2017) there will be different stations to clean, fix, sort and wrap the donated items. Parents are welcomed to help with these tasks at the different stations during this day. Please check the full plan of the day here: Winter Celebration Community Service Plan. Please follow our announcements and updates on the CACN, Newsletters and Tuesday's morning assemblies. Thank you for your continued support of CAC and helping others stay warm this winter.
READING
This week, as they continue exploring different biographies, third grade readers will note that often a subject’s life and time are quite different from our own today. They will analyze and judge the subject’s decisions against the specific circumstances in which he/she lives rather than in our own context. They will also build theories and reflect on what life lessons can be learned.
Later on, third grade students will expand their understanding of the genre by learning to recognize other kinds of narrative nonfiction. Usually these are true stories about something that happened in history, something that happened recently, or the story of a person who is not easy to identify as a typical hero.
WRITING
This week in writing we continue to work on our Persuasive writing piece. In particular, we will look at how authors plan their writing, by keeping a timeline. We will also look at various sources of evidence to support our thesis statement, including interviews and surveys. Later in the week we will look at raising our introductions and conclusions to help make our audience care.
MATH
This week, students learn to model place value strategies using the associative property. For example, 2 × 30 = 2 × (3 × 10) = (2 × 3) × 10 and 4 × 60 = 4 × (6 × 10) = (4 × 6) x 10. Third grade mathematicians will also continue to practice solving two-step word problems and gain exposure to word problems requiring them to multiply single-digit factors and multiples of 10.
By the end of the week, students will take the End of Module assessment, an opportunity for them to demonstrate their understanding of multiplication and division with units 0-10. Please remind your mathematician to review the Module 3 problem sets and homework as well as important vocabulary in preparation for the assessment. Also, encourage your student to consistently use the Read, Draw, Write method to solve problems as they are expected to show their thinking by including a diagram, equation, and a full sentence answer declaring their solution.SCIENCE
This week in Science, we jump into some exploration with sound. Students will learn that sound can be manipulated through length and tension. They will first experiment with length, by using materials such as string, bottles, and wood. Students will determine if the length of these materials when plucked or hit, makes the pitch low or high. Later in the week, third graders will also investigate how tension of an object can affect the pitch. Students will realize that the speed of the vibration can change depending on the length or the tension of the materials.
Guidance News
How to Be a Helpful Bystander – Acts of Compassion
Students are hearing stories about courageous, helpful bystanders and practicing various ways to be a helpful bystander in real-life scenarios. A helpful bystander takes action when they witness someone being hurt by others. It only takes ONE helpful bystander to stop teasing and there are several direct and indirect ways a person can help. We will have lots of discussions about the role of the bystander and the power of this role in either:
a. Ignoring the mean behavior and allowing it to continue, or
b. taking action, speaking up and stopping the mean behavior.
Students will role-play various scenarios in which they will use their words and/or actions to help someone who is being teased and/or excluded by their peers.
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